Career
Fricker is the founding editor-in-chief of Irish Theatre Magazine, an online cultural journal that provided coverage of theatre and the performing arts in Ireland. She has also reviewed and broadcast for outlets such as The Guardian, Variety, The New York Times, the British Broadcasting Corporation, and the Canadian Broadcasting Company. Fricker"s recent publications include ‘Le goût du risque: Kà de Robert Lepage et du Cirque du Soleil’ (‘Risky Business: Robert Lepage and the Cirque du Soleil’s Kà") and ‘À l’Heure zéro de la culture (dés)unie. She was co-investigator of the Eurovision Song Contest and the "New" Europe research network.
Her co-edited volume Performing the "New" Europe: Identities, Feelings, and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest, was published in May, 2013, and explores the Eurovision song contest as a "symbolic contact zone between European cultures" and brings together the opinions of scholars from both Europe and North America.
Fricker has also received a British Academy research grant to write Making Theatre Global: Robert Lepage"s Original Stage Productions, a monograph set to appear in Manchester University Press" Theatre: Theory-Practice-Performance series. As a professor, Fricker lectured from 2007 to 2012 at Royal Holloway, University of London for Drama and Theatre.
She is currently in Brock University"s Department of Dramatic Arts since 2013 and teaches in the Theatre Praxis Concentration.
